Dear Authors
I believe the reviewers offered very valuable comments to help improve the manuscript. I am pleased that all three referees are in strong support of the paper being published in 'Climate of the Past'. I am thus glad to inform you that the paper may be accepted for publication subject to the stipulated changes being made. I see these as relatively minor corrections. Please submit a revised/corrected version which I will examine and make any necessary final edits and comments on.
Sincerely
Stefan Grab

Dear Authors
I am satisfied with the corrections made but there are some necessary technical corrections that require attention. I have added sticky notes to your pdf manuscript and ask that you kindly make the required corrections.
Congratulations on your manuscript.
Sincerely,
Stefan Grab

The paper presents a worldwide state of the art of droughts fluctuations based on documentary data. It gives an overview of achievements related to different kinds of documentary evidence with their examples and an overview of papers presenting long-term drought chronologies over the individual continents, analysis of the most outstanding drought events, the influence of external forcing and large-scale climate drivers, and human impacts and responses. It recommends future research directions.

The paper presents a worldwide state of the art of droughts fluctuations based on documentary...